Maybe some sort of immigration reform passes (it's in everyone's self-interest) but no tax reform.
His current circumstances make Clinton the rare politician who can argue for reform out of self-interest.
Elsewhere, though, the need to preserve social cohesion, parroted by European politicians from left and right, has become a self-defeating excuse to avoid reform.
We are committing economic self-flagellation by ignoring antidumping reform in this country, where 80 percent of all antidumping measures in place restrict crucial manufacturing inputs.
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Even at this time of self-doubt and amid stirrings of reform, the old prejudices remain strong.
In many areas of life, Americans cheerfully accept that the law intrudes too much: they accept the case for tort reform, and they dislike self-important judges.
It is hard to ignore the role of European expansion in the creation of the underdeveloped world's extractive institutions which, in self-perpetuating fashion, continue to constrain reform and development.
Like its Basque counterpart, however, CiU is likely to be tempted as much by a greater ration of self-government than by another tranche of economic reform.
The call was made by Jimmy Deuchars of the Scots-based Grandparents Apart Self-Help Group to a Holyrood committee examining family law reform.
But for a century efforts to reform libel law thoroughly have foundered on a combination of lawyerly self-interest, bureaucratic timidity and a quiet belief among many lawmakers that the media is already too careless with other people's reputations (not least with politicians' good names).
The 1996 Telecom Reform Act failed precisely because it did not account for rational, self-interested behavior.
His government of technocrats, which took office in November 2011, is also trying to force labour-market reform on the trade unions and fiscal compliance on Italy's legendarily tax-shy self-employed.
Whereas Mr Suharto was sternly authoritarian, Mr Habibie has been ready to reform: he has given freedom to the press, emptied the jails of political prisoners and offered self-determination to the people of East Timor.
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